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1. A selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and foreign airs : adapted to the fife, violin, or German-flute
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2. The Scots musical museum : humbly dedicated to the Catch Club instituted at Edinr June 1771 by James Johnson
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3. [A composite music volume : containing Country dances selected as perform'd at court and all publick assemblies and entertainments Part 1 & 2, and Caledonian country dances being a collection of all the celebrated Scotch and English country dances now in...
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4. The dancing-master: or, Directions for dancing country dances, with the tunes to each dance, for the treble-violin
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5. Memoirs of the Royal Artillery Band: its origin, history and progress. An account of the rise of military music in England. With ... illustrations [including portraits.]
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1. Musick's monument; or, A remembrancer of the best practical musick, both divine, and civil, that has ever been known, to have been in the world. : Divided into three parts. The first part, shews a necessity of singing psalms well, in parachial churches,...
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2. [A composite music volume : containing Country dances selected as perform'd at court and all publick assemblies and entertainments Part 1 & 2, and Caledonian country dances being a collection of all the celebrated Scotch and English country dances now in...
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3. Klers' violin repository of dance music : comprising reels, strathspeys, hornpipes, country dances, quadrilles, waltzes &c.
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4. The dancing-master: or, Directions for dancing country dances, with the tunes to each dance, for the treble-violin
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5. The Scots musical museum in six volumes : consisting of six hundred Scots songs with proper basses for the piano forte &c.
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Musick's monument; or, A remembrancer of the best practical musick, both divine, and civil, that has ever been known, to have been in the world. : Divided into three parts. The first part, shews a necessity of singing psalms well, in parachial churches, or not to sing at all; directing, how they may be well sung, certainly; by two several ways, or means; with an assurance of perpetual national-quire; and also shewing, how cathedral musick, may be much improved, and refined. The second part, Treats of the noble lute, (the best of instruments) now made easie; and all its occult-locked-up-secrets plainly laid open, never before discovered; ... directing the most ample way, for the use of the Theorboe, from off the note, in confort, &c. ... In the third part, the generous viol, in its rightest use, is treated upon; ...
Frontis. portrait (plate) of Thomas Mace signed: Hen. Cook pinx. W. Faithorne sculp

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